Cerebral Palsy Awareness

Aim

A half-or (preferably) one-day training session to give participants a basic appreciation of what Cerebral Palsy is all about

Target Group

Anyone working in a health and/or social care, leisure or local authority setting. Please remember that this is a basic awareness session. The assumption is that all participants will be working with service users, or may deal with customers, who have Cerebral Palsy.

The trainer

The trainer, Iain, has Cerebral Palsy himself and is supported in his delivery of the training by his Personal Assistant.

Venue and Timings

Your own training room; we suggest 10.00am–4.30pm (9.30am–12.30pm or 1.30pm–4.30pm for half-days)

Have discussed links with other conditions, eg learning disabilities, mental health and other disabilities

Have asked the trainer anything they want to know about his own experience of living with Cerebral Palsy

Training methods used

All of our training sessions are intended to be as interactive as possible. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, make comments and bring up their own issues. We use lots of different methods including quizzes, video and small group work as well as direct teaching. We want participants to leave the session saying “that was really enjoyable and it was directly relevant to my working life - we now understand the issues from a Service User perspective and can develop and improve our services.”